Deploy Windows Vista using SCCM 2007 SP1

by Marin Franković on 20 October, 2008

Recently I had to prepare for a lecture on deploying Windows Vista with SCCM 2007. Here you can see short procedure on how to configure SCCM to deploy Vista to “bare metal” computers. I will not cover the instalation of SCCM 2007 and SQL 2005 SP2 server.

– Install and configure WDS (do not add any images, do not accept any client requests,?set delay to 1 sec. or more)– Set boundary for SCCM 2007– Set Action Account– Install PXE service on SCCM 2007– Create instalation package for SCCM agent and publish it to DP– Create Boot Image and publish it ot DP and PXE DP– Create Install Package (install.wim) and publish it to DP– Create source install package (complete Vista directory) and publish it to DP– Create Driver packages and publish it to DP– Create new collection– Import computer information into newly created collection– Create task sequence– Advertise task sequence to newly created collection

Tips and tricks:

– If testing in Virtual Server environment make sure that internal DHCP server on Virtual network adapter is disabled– Check validity period of self signed certificate on PXE service– Create boot.wim image foom vinpe.wim file which you can find in WAIK– If deploying to Virtual machine inject only network drivers into boot.wim image– Redeploy boot.wim image to PXE and standard DP